bumpier; bumpiest
1
: having or covered with bumps
2
a
: marked by bumps or jolts
b
: marked by or full of difficulties
Examples of bumpy in a Sentence
The road is very bumpy.
the bumpy skin of a cucumber
The flight was very bumpy.
The road was rough so we had a bumpy ride.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
The 47th president and Senate should buckle up for what could be a bumpy ride to confirmation for the HHS nominee.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Despite almost doubling its third-quarter revenue, compared with a year earlier, Nvidia shares fell 3.2% on Friday, capping off a bumpy week during which the stock fluctuated between the red and the green.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
The last few years have been bumpy ones for the coffee-store chain.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Bumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumpy. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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